I'd definitely agree with this concept. Even as a system admin, you can accidentally bring a production database to its knees with a select query. Giving that power to end-users will more than triple potential downtime.
Complete or partial replication is the simplest solution, but it may cost you extra money if you're setting up a second server for that purpose. Consider a data export. If they want to run queries on raw data, make a sql dump, an excel spreadsheet, an access database (I assume these customers may be Windows users) or some other format that would allow them to query the data on their own terms. Just make sure they're not dumping the database every 5 minutes and your production server will be sitting happy.
If they absolutely without a doubt need live access, think about making a middle-man daemon to pre-parse queries or that accepts a custom query language that will prevent them from hosing the server.
While there are advantages to features like System Restore and the fact that in-use files are locked by their associated programs, these features are often the only things that come between detection and eradication of many of these rootkitting trojans. AV software still doesn't tell you to turn off system restore before it tries to delete viruses, or close program XYZ that is infected, and rootkit removal tools often forget to delete the other half of a virus when they reboot.
On top of that, Google and other engines are so full of spammy removal tools that finding a legitimate tool is a gamble. Tools that do work (eg Hijackthis) often are not intelligent enough to tell good from bad or don't recognize the correlation between multiple pieces of a rootkit. It sometimes comes down to scanning the system, turning it off without shutting down, and booting the recovery console to delete a laundry list of trojan dll files that one tool could not take care.
If I were a smart AV software developer, I'd make a bootable recover tool that will erase viruses and trojans before they can hide and secure themselves. Such tools existed back in the days of Windows 3.1 and into the early days of Win95, but today we have nothing more than windows apps and web-based housecalls. Windows and third-party developers have let their guard down and have forgotten the history of the problem.
Today they have general government censorship without personal control. If the government provided general censorship of the Internet, but offered citizens specific censorship (that is, being able to filter or unfilter content for specific interest), would citizens prefer that over what they have today? Is this a matter of a lazy nation not wanting to be hassled with the time it takes to censor their own internet? Is this poll skewed by a nation fearing their government will take action against them, or does government censorship sits well in line with this lazy communist mindset?
I can't help but compare Microsoft with Morgoth. They craft their words so finely that people inept or otherwise follow their invalid "open" point of view and push off the guidance of the other Valar. But deep down all they care about is their coveting of those beautiful Silmarils and nurturing the putrid race of Orcs.
I've pondered ereaders recently since I started a new job and am taking the bus for half an hour each direction. So far the only advantage is that I don't lose my place when we hit a bump in the road.
My question though is the feel of such an experience. Sure, a reader has a page number or a progress bar, but is it as satisfying as feeling the number of pages in one's left hand versus their right? Do you miss the lack of that thump sound when closing the book, or the sound of flipping pages? Or do you miss the familiar curved shape of an open book?
Until eReaders start playing environment sounds or do some other thing to enhance the reader experience, I think treeware still has its advantages from the reader experience point of view.
Actually, being R2D2, it would roll around, find an electrical socket, plug itself in and go, "wee waa woo..." then all its panels would pop out and smoke up the room. After that, you'll have to hire a hydro farmer to fix it, or sell it to some jawas.
So what if the purchaser does not have Internet? I think that argument comes into play more often than one thinks.
Also, if I'm diagnosed with Internet addiction, does this mean I can sue Bioware for forcing me to fuel my addiction just to play a game?
From this we should be able to create a formula that can predict the time it takes until the first Microsoft bashing will occur in a thread based on the topic, relative Microsoft stock price and the time since Steve Ballmer's most recent public statement. Further, we can determine the number of bashings that a thread will contain at any given point beyond the first bashing.
With this type of formula, a new species of Slashdotters will start to appear reading articles only after they've been posted for a given amount of time purely to view said bashings.
So who wants to start a spreadsheet with some real-world figures? Maybe get a graph plotted? Throw it into a good PowerPoint presentation for the next OSCON?
I totally agree with this thought, and it's especially true in Windows. You reinstall windows and spend half the day saying "Don't show this dialog again". But why not take a different approach. How about a.profile stop-all setting?
For example, shorewall has a configuration option call "ADMINISABSENTMINDED". An environment like "USERISABLOOMINGID10T" would tailor to experts wanting the wizards and their balloons to die.
If you haven't already noticed, AdSense has features now to tell Google how to log into your website so it can catalog your user-only pages. You know what that means. Porn sites are going to start using this so that Googlebot can confirm that it's age is over 18. We'll be showered with a gigantic wave of pornographic information. We will soon have to press juvenile charges against a corporate entity because it lied about its age on web forms to gain access to pornography and forum discussions.
I'd agree with some folks here saying that Google doesn't have a right to photograph things on private roads that are not paid for by tax dollars, but I don't see any mention of the word "Private" on the streets signs at the end of this road.
However, jumping over to Goldenbrook Ln right next door, I believe it may state that it's a private drive. And there is only one house on that drive, and Google turned around in front of their garage doors on the drive. Oh look, I can see exactly what flowers you planted this year. That I see as a more extreme invasion of privacy. In the other case, I don't see it any different than driving by a house on a main road with a sharp curve.
I haven't heard that before, but it would make some sense. The big issue I see is that Iceland really isn't icy. It even has active volcanoes and geothermal hotspots. Not really what you think of when you put in a data center. If the Vikings really did change the name, then they'll have succeeded in fooling corporations generations later by it. Cue Vikings laughing at Google as its data centers melt under hot lava.
So they're holding off on SP1 for a 'great install experience'? Does that mean they want everyone to install Pre-SP1 and try out the locust-ridden Vista before installing the new SP1 with its signs of remission? Is this to better ratings by new users by making them say, "Oh, my experience greatly improved after installing SP1."
My personal experience: Vista corrupts files unless you only use Vista. I'm not surprised now to hear more Vista-related corruption. Maybe Microsoft should add to their sales pitch and say Vista is safer, even against the RIAA because it corrupts your files when they try to investigate you. Now with more backup corruption!
For a moment I thought that said man-eating bacteria combats global warming. Told you that the root cause of global warming is mankind. You eliminate that and we're all set.
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I'd definitely agree with this concept. Even as a system admin, you can accidentally bring a production database to its knees with a select query. Giving that power to end-users will more than triple potential downtime.
Complete or partial replication is the simplest solution, but it may cost you extra money if you're setting up a second server for that purpose. Consider a data export. If they want to run queries on raw data, make a sql dump, an excel spreadsheet, an access database (I assume these customers may be Windows users) or some other format that would allow them to query the data on their own terms. Just make sure they're not dumping the database every 5 minutes and your production server will be sitting happy.
If they absolutely without a doubt need live access, think about making a middle-man daemon to pre-parse queries or that accepts a custom query language that will prevent them from hosing the server.
... Rickrolled. It's plain obvious that it's YouTube's internal encoded email describing the next year's April Fools joke.
Can't forget the acetylene torch.
While there are advantages to features like System Restore and the fact that in-use files are locked by their associated programs, these features are often the only things that come between detection and eradication of many of these rootkitting trojans. AV software still doesn't tell you to turn off system restore before it tries to delete viruses, or close program XYZ that is infected, and rootkit removal tools often forget to delete the other half of a virus when they reboot.
On top of that, Google and other engines are so full of spammy removal tools that finding a legitimate tool is a gamble. Tools that do work (eg Hijackthis) often are not intelligent enough to tell good from bad or don't recognize the correlation between multiple pieces of a rootkit. It sometimes comes down to scanning the system, turning it off without shutting down, and booting the recovery console to delete a laundry list of trojan dll files that one tool could not take care.
If I were a smart AV software developer, I'd make a bootable recover tool that will erase viruses and trojans before they can hide and secure themselves. Such tools existed back in the days of Windows 3.1 and into the early days of Win95, but today we have nothing more than windows apps and web-based housecalls. Windows and third-party developers have let their guard down and have forgotten the history of the problem.
Today they have general government censorship without personal control. If the government provided general censorship of the Internet, but offered citizens specific censorship (that is, being able to filter or unfilter content for specific interest), would citizens prefer that over what they have today? Is this a matter of a lazy nation not wanting to be hassled with the time it takes to censor their own internet? Is this poll skewed by a nation fearing their government will take action against them, or does government censorship sits well in line with this lazy communist mindset?
I can't help but compare Microsoft with Morgoth. They craft their words so finely that people inept or otherwise follow their invalid "open" point of view and push off the guidance of the other Valar. But deep down all they care about is their coveting of those beautiful Silmarils and nurturing the putrid race of Orcs.
My question though is the feel of such an experience. Sure, a reader has a page number or a progress bar, but is it as satisfying as feeling the number of pages in one's left hand versus their right? Do you miss the lack of that thump sound when closing the book, or the sound of flipping pages? Or do you miss the familiar curved shape of an open book?
Until eReaders start playing environment sounds or do some other thing to enhance the reader experience, I think treeware still has its advantages from the reader experience point of view.
Actually, being R2D2, it would roll around, find an electrical socket, plug itself in and go, "wee waa woo..." then all its panels would pop out and smoke up the room. After that, you'll have to hire a hydro farmer to fix it, or sell it to some jawas.
So what if the purchaser does not have Internet? I think that argument comes into play more often than one thinks.
Also, if I'm diagnosed with Internet addiction, does this mean I can sue Bioware for forcing me to fuel my addiction just to play a game?
So when is the Ray Muzyka or some other officer at Bioware going to make some ridiculous claim that it's DRM can't be hacked?
From this we should be able to create a formula that can predict the time it takes until the first Microsoft bashing will occur in a thread based on the topic, relative Microsoft stock price and the time since Steve Ballmer's most recent public statement. Further, we can determine the number of bashings that a thread will contain at any given point beyond the first bashing.
With this type of formula, a new species of Slashdotters will start to appear reading articles only after they've been posted for a given amount of time purely to view said bashings.
So who wants to start a spreadsheet with some real-world figures? Maybe get a graph plotted? Throw it into a good PowerPoint presentation for the next OSCON?
"the average web page has more than tripled"
On the other end, servers and link speeds have not kept up with the demand resulting in more slashDDOS KO's.
One more reason why courier-style websites still exist.
"it annoys the piss out of experience users"
I totally agree with this thought, and it's especially true in Windows. You reinstall windows and spend half the day saying "Don't show this dialog again". But why not take a different approach. How about a .profile stop-all setting?
For example, shorewall has a configuration option call "ADMINISABSENTMINDED". An environment like "USERISABLOOMINGID10T" would tailor to experts wanting the wizards and their balloons to die.
If you haven't already noticed, AdSense has features now to tell Google how to log into your website so it can catalog your user-only pages. You know what that means. Porn sites are going to start using this so that Googlebot can confirm that it's age is over 18. We'll be showered with a gigantic wave of pornographic information. We will soon have to press juvenile charges against a corporate entity because it lied about its age on web forms to gain access to pornography and forum discussions.
I'd agree with some folks here saying that Google doesn't have a right to photograph things on private roads that are not paid for by tax dollars, but I don't see any mention of the word "Private" on the streets signs at the end of this road.
However, jumping over to Goldenbrook Ln right next door, I believe it may state that it's a private drive. And there is only one house on that drive, and Google turned around in front of their garage doors on the drive. Oh look, I can see exactly what flowers you planted this year. That I see as a more extreme invasion of privacy. In the other case, I don't see it any different than driving by a house on a main road with a sharp curve.
I haven't heard that before, but it would make some sense. The big issue I see is that Iceland really isn't icy. It even has active volcanoes and geothermal hotspots. Not really what you think of when you put in a data center. If the Vikings really did change the name, then they'll have succeeded in fooling corporations generations later by it. Cue Vikings laughing at Google as its data centers melt under hot lava.
Are people forgetting their geography? Iceland is green and Greenland is ice. Shouldn't we consider them as a data center wooing country?
So they're holding off on SP1 for a 'great install experience'? Does that mean they want everyone to install Pre-SP1 and try out the locust-ridden Vista before installing the new SP1 with its signs of remission? Is this to better ratings by new users by making them say, "Oh, my experience greatly improved after installing SP1."
I'll go with Jamaica. Those heavy accents can never be trusted, mon.
I for one welcome our new poop-flinging cyborg overlords.
My personal experience: Vista corrupts files unless you only use Vista. I'm not surprised now to hear more Vista-related corruption. Maybe Microsoft should add to their sales pitch and say Vista is safer, even against the RIAA because it corrupts your files when they try to investigate you. Now with more backup corruption!
Clearly this is to offset the cost of the red ring of death.
Does that make the iPod a tadPod or polliPod?
From the article:
"[O]ur end goal couldn't possibly be suing everyone using NSFW out of existence."
Thank you Fark for making this about protecting the ass-hole disguise and not about suing assholes.
For a moment I thought that said man-eating bacteria combats global warming. Told you that the root cause of global warming is mankind. You eliminate that and we're all set.